Today here are some gift ideas for mamas. I’ve rounded up mainly accessories and smaller gifts because these are the kinds of things you probably wouldn’t buy for yourself but would love to receive as a gift. I hope you enjoy them!
Have you started your Christmas shopping yet? I haven’t! I keep telling myself it’s only November so there’s plenty of time. But in reality I know these next few weeks are going to whiz by and then serious panic will set in. While I continue to procrastinate on my shopping, I have started getting some fun gift ideas ready for you and the first one (probably my favourite) is a list of lovely Christmas gifts for babies.
It’s definitely time to start thinking about Christmas and the festive season. But not long before that we have another important event in this house – my daughter Anya’s birthday. So come mid-November I’m thinking gifts, party planning, outfit selecting and everything else to do with celebrations. One of my favourite things to buy Anya is clothes and right now she’s going through a phase where anything sparkly meets her approval. Perfect timing I think, because who doesn’t need a bit of sparkle in Winter, especially for the festive season?
So with sparkly clothes on my mind I joined forces with Mini Boden to share some of my favourite pieces from their 2013 party collection. There’s lots to choose from but for me the brocade dresses and skirts really stood out. I love the gold polka dots against the dusty rose but there’s also another equally striking colour combo of a rich blue with bronze dots (not pictured here). And then there are the floaty tutu’s with a subtle hint of gold that pair up nicely with the sequined ballerina pumps. Which little girl could resist this kind of sparkle… I know mine definitely couldn’t!
Here’s to wishing you a sparkly festive season!
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Thank you all for the amazing support this year and for all the likes, comments, shares, email messages and so much more. It’s been a great year and I look forward to sharing lots more with you in 2013. In the meantime have an amazing Christmas and a fun New Years celebration. I’ll be taking a little break and will see you back here in the new year. Before I go, I wanted to leave you with a few festive crafts and treat ideas that you can try out over the holidays.
1. Fun and delicious chocolate mustaches and you can even go a step further and make a white chocolate Santa beard! 2. Super cute candy snails that will go down a treat for kids and adults. 3. Pretty DIY glitter acorns that are so festive and easy to make. 4. A cute little DIY wooden familythat you can decorate and adorn as you like.
One of my favourite kids style magazines is Milk. I love browsing through the pages packed with creative ideas, the latest fashion and decor for kids and so much more. Only slight problem is that a lot of it is in French but that doesn’t detract from the joy of looking at the pretty pictures. Today I was browsing their site when this vintage wonderland grabbed me. What an amazing, nostalgic, creative and quirky wonderland it is. Milk Magazine gave carte blanche to the creative duo behind two of my absolute favourite vintage shops and asked them to stage the Christmas of their dreams. I think they’ve staged the Christmas of my dreams too! Just wonderful… A lot of the vintage furniture and toys of yesteryear pictured are available from Les Petites Bohemes. It’s the creative duo behind these stores that created this magical kids wonderland with Simon Wardavoir taking the photos. I hope you love it as much as I do. Happy Christmas!
One of the best parts of gift giving for me it the wrapping of the gift. I love using plain gift wrapping paper like a solid colour or something with a tiny repeat pattern but all in one colour. And then I embellish it with whatever I can find… string, ribbon, washi tape, stickers, stamps or even a combination of a couple of these. Last and most importantly comes the gift tag which just adds that finishing touch to a gift. Sometimes I make my own but most often I turn to the free gift tags that you can print, especially since so many of them are just gorgeous. I’ve been on the hunt for some and these are a few of my favourtie free printable gift tags for this year:
Love the grey-blue/pink colour combo and the delicate pattern of the tags at the top while the red and white ones are simple but still so stylish and you can even customise with your own special message if you want to. Head here for the blue/pink gift tags and here for the red and white tags.
These deer and bear tags are both cute and quirky and come in lovely colours. I’m so loving the long ones with the standing deer and the bear. Here’s where you’ll find these free holiday tags to download.
These pretty patterned gift tags are so fresh and summery, perfect if you’re celebrating Christmas in a hot and sunny place like Australia or Argentina. But I’m quite tempted to use them in freezing London too just to add that splash of sunshine to my gifts. You’ll find these free patterned tags at Eat Drink Chic.
For something a bit more traditional and wintery, I love these simple and sweet tags. The over-sized lettering and the tiny tree, snowflake and reindeer print looks so lovely. You can print these free gift tags at Love vs. Design.
These two are actually free printable gift wrap but you could easily customise them in to gift tags by printing and sticking on card. The snowman one is so cute and would look great on kids gifts while the tree and gift design is chic and modern and would add a stylish touch to any gift. You’ll find both these to print over at Bloesem.
Last, I really like these bold single coloured tags with sweet and happy messages on them. I love the way they’ve paired them with matching coloured wrapping paper which I think makes them even more striking. But if you prefer, you could get contrasting gift wrap too. You’ll find these downloads over at Hey Look.
These are my current favourites and I know I’ll be using a few of these designs on my gifts. If you want more free gift tags then you can check out my selections from previous years which you’ll find here, here and here.
This week’s picks for mama & baby… some more Christmas gift ideas but this time in blue. I love blue and as there are so many different shades of the colour there’s something for everyone. One of the reasons I picked this colour today is because I think blue works for girls just as well as for boys:
1. Bookhou stones tea towel for mama from Vuela Boutique.
11. Organic contrast toe and heel tights for baby by Buisjes & Beugels.
12. Cloud blue and cream wooden necklace for mama by Vera Viridis.
Unlike me, I suspect most of you are organised and have finished your Christmas shopping {I haven’t even started!} so this will be the last gift list of the year. But in case you’re still looking for ideas, you can check out my all my other Christmas gift guides too.
Today’s Christmas gift guide is a selection by French Blossom, my sponsors. French Blossom is a kids store started by husband and wife team Nicholas and Meriem. Even though they don’t have kids (yet), having met and lived in Paris for many years, Nicholas and Meriem were ‘inspired by the exquisite elegance and style devoted to children’s clothing, toys and decoration in France’. As Nicholas explains, ‘the idea behind French Blossom is to – ‘Celebrate French Fashion for Children,’ and to exclusively showcase chic and stylish independent French children’s designers’. So I thought this Christmas, it would be fun to ask them to choose their favourite gift ideas from their store and I also wanted to find out a bit more about how they spend their Christmas. Here’s what they said:
Let’s talk Christmas! What do you love most about it?
Family time! Its great to all gather together, have fun and relax.
What’s a typical Christmas day for you?
We wake up and see if Father Christmas has been kind to us 🙂 ! We all then sit in the living room in front of the fire and Christmas tree, opening the presents as the lovely smells of the Christmas dinner wafts in from the kitchen. After lunch we wrap up nice and warm and go for a walk to watch the annual swim in the sea. There are hundreds of brave people, many dressed up in fancy dress costumes who swim in the freezing water. Then there is a nice warm drink for everyone. We haven’t done this swim yet but maybe this year!
Is your Christmas more French or more English?
Our Christmas is British; Meriem and I always go back to the UK for Christmas. The only thing French is the wine on the table.
Anything you dislike about Christmas?
I don’t like when I have finished opening the last present, finished the wonderful turkey dinner or saying goodbye to relatives who have come over for the day
Lastly, your top 10 Christmas gifts for kids this year?
1. Circus themed baby dinner set by Mimi’Lou
2. Soft toy characters by My name is simone
3. Vintage 3D story box by Tiphaine Mangan
4. Little duck on wheels by Trousselier
5. Dreamy kids mouse mobile by Rose Miniscule
6. Pirate and treasure puzzle by Janod
7. Colourful decorative ball lights by La case de cousin paul
8. Children’s accordean by Vilac
9. Retro classic blue pedal car by Baghera
10. Story express circus by Janod
Thank you Nicholas and Meriem for sharing your Christmas traditions and gift ideas with us and I’m really curious to find out if Nicholas will do that swim this year! You’ll find all these toys and more over at French Blossom and don’t forget, my readers can still get 10% off anything that’s not on offer by using the codes EBABEES.
For my second Christmas gift list, it’s all about the boys. Boys can sometimes be hard to buy for so hopefully this list will give you some inspiration. If you haven’t already, you can also check out my Christmas gift ideas for babies.
1. ‘Favourite place’ play house by Lucky Boy Sunday from Molly-Meg.
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Today here are some gift ideas for mamas. I’ve rounded up mainly accessories and smaller gifts because these are the kinds of things you probably wouldn’t buy for yourself but would love to receive as a gift. I hope you enjoy them!
